A time of truth and reconciliation

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In the year In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the end of the apocalypse.” In any sense, he was right. But first he understood the meaning of the Greek word. Apocalypse“Revelation” means, Obama can’t make the same assurance in 2025. Apocalypse Secrets of the ancient regime. The statements of the new administration should not justify revenge – reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to come, there must first be truth.

of Apocalypse It’s the most peaceful way to resolve the age-old security war on the Internet, a war the Internet won. My friend and colleague Eric Weinstein calls the pre-Internet guardians of secrecy the Distributed Thought Suppression Complex (DISC)—media organizations, bureaucracies, universities, and government-funded NGOs. In 2019, following the death in prison of financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Internet began our liberation from DISC prison. About half of Americans polled that year believed the official story that he committed suicide. He lost total control of the narrative.

It may be too early to answer the Internet’s questions about the late Mr. Epstein. But one cannot say the same about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. So far, 65 percent of Americans Suspicion That Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Like a rugged postmodern detective story, the suspects — Fidel Castro, 1960s mafiosi, the CIA’s Allen Dulles — slowly die. The thousands of classified government files on Oswald may or may not be red herrings, but opening them up for public inspection would give America some closure.

But we cannot wait six decades to end the deadlock on free discussion on Covid-19. In emails sent in a subpoena from Anthony Fauci’s senior adviser David Morans, the National Institutes of Health apparatchiks learned. It is hidden Their letter from Freedom of information Do an investigation. Boccaccio wrote “nothing” in his story of the plague of the Middle Ages Decameron“It is so impolite that it cannot be said to someone else if a proper word is used to convey the word.”

In that spirit, Morens and former US Medical Advisor Fauci will have the opportunity to share some sobering facts about our own latest epidemic. Do you suspect that covid is a result of US taxpayer funding or a Chinese military program? Why did we fund the work of the EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to uncover the novel coronavirus? Is “augmented action” research a buzzword for the bioweapon program? How did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media?

Our First Amendment enshrines free speech laws for domestic conflicts, but the global reach of the Internet challenges its adversaries to global war. Can we believe that a Brazilian judge blocked the Monroe Doctrine without American support? Were we complicit in the beginning of the end of internet anonymity with Australia’s recent law requiring age verification for social media users? Do we offer a two-minute critique of the UK, which arrests hundreds of people a year for sparking online chatter, among other things, about “annoyance, trouble or unnecessary stress”? We expect no better than Orwellian dictatorships in East Asia and Eurasia, but we must support free internet in Oceania.

Still, in these bleak final weeks, dark questions emerge. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast as the Biden administration trashed crypto entrepreneurs. How similar is our financial system to the social credit system? They were an IRS contractor. Illegal discharges Are Trump’s tax records an anomaly, or should Americans think their right to financial privacy hinges on their politics? And one can talk about the right to privacy during Congress. It saves Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, under which the FBI conducts tens of thousands of warrantless searches of Americans’ communications?

South Africa has confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but to answer the above questions in abstract terms would be to Trump’s chaotic style and our internet world that distributes and distributes short packages. The first Trump administration still believes in the actual deep state of the Oliver Stone movie because they refrained from making statements. This belief has faded.

Our ancien régime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. In the year 2016 shook their historic faith in the moral universe, but 2016 In 2020, they hoped to write off Trump as a failure. In retrospect, 2020 was a disaster, a militant regime and a rearguard action by the Stroudbrog regime. There will be no previous Internet pre-rollbacks.

Looking for new and unusual ideas for the future. New ideas could have saved the old system, let alone answered our deepest questions – the causes of 50 years of scientific and technological progress, the real estate price manipulation and explosion. Public debt.

Perhaps an exceptional country can continue to ignore such questions, but Trump did in 2015. America is not a special country, as you have learned in 2016. It’s not even great anymore.

Identity politics endlessly permeates ancient history. The study of recent history that the Trump administration is now calling for is more subtle — and more important. of Apocalypse It cannot solve our fight over 1619, but it can solve our fight against Covid-19. He will not judge the sins of our first rulers, but the sins of those who govern us today. The internet won’t let us forget those sins – but it won’t stop us from forgiving them, in truth.